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Luca Demetriadi @lucambd.bsky.social · 6h

The Nobel going to a writer in Hungarian? #murnane

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Luca Demetriadi @lucambd.bsky.social · 6d

Buy Death Kit 2!
Support new lit mag!
Read my story!

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Tim Coronel @timcoronel.bsky.social · 28d

a letter from me and m'learned colleagues in support of @meanjin.bsky.social (@savemeanjin.bsky.social )

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Luca Demetriadi @lucambd.bsky.social · Sep 10

Belatedly got round to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social ‘s Big Fiction. Very engaging for something so research-dense

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Luca Demetriadi @lucambd.bsky.social · Sep 4

Books I’ve read recently! And I found this duck at an op shop. No idea why anyone would get rid

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Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social · Sep 4

Since our very first issue Meanjin and Overland have been comrades, mates, rivals, and drinking buddies. The UMP board’s decision is a shockingly myopic act of cultural vandalism which will grievously harm the Australian literary community.

The Egg, a cricket trophy awarded to the winners of Overland vs Meanjin matches, alongside a copy of Jim Davidson's Emperor in Lilliput, the book about magazine founding editors Clem Christesen and Stephen Murray-Smith.

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Claire G. Coleman @clairegcoleman.bsky.social · Sep 4

Meanjin Journal is 85 years old; older than the Sydney Opera House. Closing it down is cultural vandalism of the highest order, roughly equivalent to demolishing the above mentioned opera house.

I am disgusted

@meanjin.bsky.social

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing

Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

www.crikey.com.au

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Luca Demetriadi @lucambd.bsky.social · Aug 23

After a such a strong start, it’s disappointing how quickly Nicki Minaj’s Starships drops off.
And having both beach and space as themes is a bit much

Luca Demetriadi @lucambd.bsky.social · Jul 21

heads up for fellow fans: the S-tier of ice cream sandwiches is currently half price at Princes Hill IGA

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Luca Demetriadi @lucambd.bsky.social · Jul 16

Been on some trips! Lots of planes and trains and reading time :)

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Luca Demetriadi @lucambd.bsky.social · Jul 14

Qantas is the best airline. They gave out ice cream sandwiches after dinner

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Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social · May 2

In response to the prompt of a publisher's campaign, Luke Horton offers an extended reflection on the value of literature and the work of writing (and reading) in the current moment.

Books are essential - Overland literary journal

Books are essential because — and yes, it seems now I dare to say it — they give us hope. But, more precisely, they give us the energy to seek new and better ways to understand, or to recognise. To se...

overland.org.au

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Luca Demetriadi @lucambd.bsky.social · Jun 11

Scatter my ashes in the airport smoking area

Luca Demetriadi @lucambd.bsky.social · Jun 4

👀 Young Tim Winton with unbelievable swag 👀

Luca Demetriadi @lucambd.bsky.social · Jun 3

Glad to get back to some Australian realist writing. More books with strikes please! (And surely due a new edition?)

Luca Demetriadi @lucambd.bsky.social · May 30

Delighted to get my hands on the latest novella (signed, no less!) from @blairesquiscoll.bsky.social
A prequel to the gripping The Frankfurt Kabuff, I’m excited to see where TFM68BCCYOR takes me…

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Luca Demetriadi @lucambd.bsky.social · May 1

Books I’ve read recently! Really really enjoyed Michelle de Kretser

Luca Demetriadi @lucambd.bsky.social · Apr 24

In love with Tim Winton’s letterhead fish

Luca Demetriadi @lucambd.bsky.social · Apr 23

This article has made me grumpy. I don’t like when elitist and inauthentic things are paraded as the opposite

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

‘Funny, sexy and a bit weird’: inside the new wave of literary parties

Fancy getting poetry performances and DJ sets all in one place? A growing number of event organisers across the UK are putting their own spins on literature readings – and there are queues out the doo...

www.theguardian.com

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Luca Demetriadi @lucambd.bsky.social · Mar 16

Recent books :)

Luca Demetriadi @lucambd.bsky.social · Mar 14

I’ll definitely give it another go! I just have so many unread books to get through atm…

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Luca Demetriadi @lucambd.bsky.social · Mar 13

I’m deeply affected by this review of Murnane’s Border Districts on Goodreads

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Luca Demetriadi @lucambd.bsky.social · Feb 9

I’ve been on a Beverley Farmer binge of late. Delight to have found this 1st ed at Brunswick Secondhand Books

Luca Demetriadi @lucambd.bsky.social · Jan 17

Also I tried reading Richard Mahoney but couldn’t do it. I gave it a few weeks but wasn’t enjoying it. Looked up the plot on Wikipedia instead. It’s very long. Maybe next year

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Luca Demetriadi @lucambd.bsky.social · Jan 17

Recent books! Enjoyed them all, pretty much.
I LOVED Rushdi’s Hospital and struggled again with Ernaux

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